Why people should know their history

32 Gerardo Angelo A. Panopio
7-Marian
Why people should know their history.

 I observed that most people these days are not concerned or eager to learn about history. Most people are unaware of why we have cars, airplanes, peace throughout most of the world and how some of our common household items like salt were a fortune in the old times. Splendid ideas and a lot of things about us are slowly being forgotten by the people which is why people have to know their history to take care and preserve our history in all parts of the world.
History may be a little foggy or sometimes frustrating to learn, but focusing on one specific topic like Julius Caesar’s conquests of Gaul, it makes history more fun and easier to learn. We may have our gadgets now, but books and documents which are handwritten are still valuable and important because people these days use paraphrasing, some details may have been left out and these could be used to trace important happenings or even solve problems in the older times. When people start with one topic, then move to another they may get the feeling of excitement as to what will happen next. Most say history is nothing but old scrolls and papers, but history is a record of who we humans are. It is the story of our world and how it was before our generation. We all know that the world we know today was not built by a single man in a span of a few days. Our world is a world created by thousands or even millions of different people, because in wars each soldier played a part to shape the world we know of today. Their names may have been forgotten but they have already been put into our history, we have all learned about many inventors, scientists and other people such as the Wright Brothers, Albert Einstein and others, but these people have their own stories and their inventions have had their inspirations and we don’t know who or what may have really inspired them to invent and discover things. History isn’t always boring, it tells us who we were and how our world came to be.
People should start learning about history because these are thing that should not be forgotten, especially by us children who want to be successful when we grow up. History is something that we should not forget and just study when needed in school, we should voluntarily study it as we are the ones who will improve history’s greatest inventions. History will inspire people to achieve more and go higher.